A survey of Sub-Saharan African medical schools

Candice Chen; Eric Buch; Travis Wassermann; Seble Frehywot; Fitzhugh Mullan; Francis Omaswa; S Ryan Greysen; Joseph C Kolars; Delanyo Dovlo; Diaa Eldin El Gali Abu Bakr; Abraham Haileamlak; Abdel Karim Koumare; Emiola Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa

doi:10.1186/1478-4491-10-4

Human Resources for Health

Table 7 Significant associations in correlative analysis

From: A survey of Sub-Saharan African medical schools

Outcome variable	Observed range of variable	Statistically significant predictors	Effect size	95% Confidence intervals	*P-Value*
# of Graduates	4 to 384	Public ownership of medical achool Total number of teaching staff Advanced ICT score	64 0.068 3.9	27 to 102 0.00042 to 0.14 0.72 to 7.2	P = 0.0011 P = 0.049 P = 0.017
% of Teaching Staff Positions Vacant	0% to 86%	GDP per capita (in USD, log scale) Public ownership of medical school	-9.8% 16%	-17% to -3.0% 4.0% to 28%	P = 0.0035 P = 0.0092
% of Faculty Involved in Research (by quartile: 0-1%, 1.6-5%, 10%-15%, 20%-100%)	1-4	Strengthened institutional research tools Provision of funded research time English as a language of instruction Arabic as a language of instruction	0.90 0.51 0.58 -0.81	0.45 to 1.35 0.022 to 1.0 0.067 to 1.6 -1.6 to-0.011	P = 0.00015 P = 0.049 P = 0.027 P = 0.047
% Gross Faculty Loss over Past Five Years	0% to 61%	Raising salaries/providing bonuses named as innovation	-7.4%	-13% to -1.3%	P = 0.018
# of PGME programs (by tercile: 0, 1-5, or 6+)	1-3	Age of medical school (in years) From southern Africa Having faculty in research	0.017 0.64 0.61	0.0085 to 0.025 0.064 to 1.2 0.16 to 1.0	P = 0.00090 P = 0.030 P = 0.0082
Use of TBL, PBL, CBL	Ordinal variables, range 1-4	Preclinical years: TBL-PBL Preclinical years: CBL-PBL Preclinical years: TBL-CBL Clinical years: TBL-CBL Clinical years: TBL-PBL	Chi squared test does not yield effect size. All associations seen were positive.		P < 0.0001 P < 0.0001 P < 0.0001 P < 0.0001 P = 0.00026
% of Graduates Preferring Practice as Rural General Practitioners 5 Years out	0% to 42.7%	Existence of a compulsory service programs Moderate number of PGME programs French as a language of instruction)	7.1% 12% 9.8%	0.12% to 14% 4.5% to 19% 1.8% to 18%	P = 0.039 P = 0.016 P = 0.016
% of Graduates Preferring Practice as Any General Practitioner 5 Years Out	0% to 100%	French as a language of instruction	22%	6.1% to 37%	P = 0.0070
Total Number of Medical Schools in a Country	0 to 29	Population of country (millions) Total land mass of country (millions of km²)	0.13 4.3	0.095 to 0.17 2.6 to 6.0	P < 0.0001 P < 0.0001

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